“I was the loneliest woman in the world, and someone said, ‘You should just pray for a husband.’ ”

She took her pal’s advice, adding, “I said I wanted a big black man from the South who looked like a football player, who already had children, who maybe had been married before . . . 3 1/2 weeks later I met my husband.”

Davis wed actor and former college football player Julius Tennon in 2003, and they adopted a child last year.

Well, there you have it ladies! Tonight you may want to get on your knees and pray.